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Monitor lizards are poached in some South- and Southeast Asian countries, as their organs and fat are used in some traditional medicines, although there is no scientific evidence as to their effectiveness. [38] [39] Monitor lizard meat, particularly the tongue and liver, is eaten in parts of India and Malaysia and is supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
The stomachs of 20 adult Asian water monitors caught on Redang Island contained mostly human food waste, followed by turtle eggs and hatchlings, crabs and lizard eggs. [27] The monitor does not thrive in these areas, but manage to still live in them. Studies are being conducted in order to understand how these creatures are able to do so in and ...
The short-tailed monitor is strictly carnivorous. Short-tailed pygmy monitors are highly active foragers in the wild, unlike most lizards. [5] They eat insects such as grasshoppers, beetles, roaches, caterpillars, as well as reptile eggs, isopods, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, small lizards and occasionally frogs and even small snakes.
Komodo dragons, doubtlessly the largest extant lizard, has their largest known specimen measuring 3.13 m (10.3 ft) in length and, with a full stomach of food, weighs an astounding 166 kg (366 lb). [8]
Two monitor lizards were seen wrestling over scraps of food after snacks left behind from tourists have disappeared because of the coronavirus lockdown. The reptiles were grappling outside a ...
"There are few lizards less suited to life in captivity than the Nile monitor. Buffrenil (1992) considered that, when fighting for its life, a Nile monitor was a more dangerous adversary than a crocodile of a similar size. Their care presents particular problems on account of the lizards' enormous size and lively dispositions.
The rock monitor, being large and able to swallow large prey, often seek chances to eat turtles, which contributes most of its vertebrate food. [4] African monitors thrive throughout the African continent. Nile monitors are the most populous lizards in Africa, with over 4 million widely distributed across Sub-Sahara in all habitats but deserts ...
Florida has a big lizard problem. Between lion fish and Burmese pythons, Florida has a lot of invasive species problems -- and the newest is massive Nile Monitor Lizards. Nile Monitor Lizards can ...